Looking Into Culture
The 2006-07 Series on Anthropology
September 13, 7:30 p.m. Connelly Center Cinema
Tiktaalik:
An Evolutionary Link between Fish and Limbed Animals (like us)
Ted Daeschler
Assistant Curator and Chair, Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences
October 19, 7:30 p.m. Bartley 1011
The Dawn of Human Culture: The Art of Lascaux
(France, c. 17,000 years ago)
Alan Mann
Professor of Anthropology,
Princeton University
November 8 , 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
Before Buddha: India's Earliest Civilization
Gregory L. Possehl
Professor of Anthropology
Curator of South Asian Archaeology
University of Pennsylvania Museum
January 31, 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
Ancient Stars:
Rock Art and Archeoastronomy
Carol Ambruster and
Elizabeth Jewell
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University
February 20; noon,
Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center
Anthropology at Villanova: Towards Interdisciplinary Discourse in the
Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences
Gustavo Benavides,Theology and Religious Studies;
Shawn Kairschner, Theater Department; Steven Krauss, Psychology; Lauren Shohet, English; Paul Steege, History; Michael Zimmerman, Biology
February 21, 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
From Skeletons to Culture: How physical anthropology is used to help
understand cultural context
Connie Stuckert Ph.D.
University of Pensylvania
March 21, 7:30 p.m. SAC 300
An Augustinian Study of Humanity in the 21st Century
Thomas Martin, O.S.A., Department of Theology; Director,
The Augustinian Institute,
Villanova University
Sponsored by the Office of Mission Effectiveness
and co-sponsored by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biology, English, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Psychology, The Graduate Program in Liberal Studies, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
